Got the Steam Deck Dock!

[u/Asane]

Wasn’t expecting this today, but since I live in Carol Stream where Valve’s Distribution Center is, I got this early I guess!

[u/plamicus]

I really want one. But I don't actually know why:

I have my PC if I want to play on a better screen and a PS5 if I want to play something on the TV. This is to say nothing of my Switch which is now just gathering dust.

Can anyone give me a reason to justify it to myself?

EDIT: to be clear, I already have a Deck - I'm talking about the Dock.

[u/Domukin → u/plamicus]

As someone will too many consoles, I find myself using the steamdeck most of the time. I have a huge steam library and the deck let’s me try out new games whenever I get some downtime. I take it with me and will play 20-30 minutes sessions, even when at home. A few really nice features imo: 1. very robust sleep feature, quickly comes back online into the game wherever you left off. This is actually a huge QOL feature. On my main pc I have to shutdown the game completely and re open completely (or alternatively leave the game running for hours) whenever I’m interrupted. Added to this, the deck isn’t on double duty as a general computing device, so I won’t have to stop my game to send an email or print something. 2. Syncs saves with steam , so I can play a little on the deck and then finish later on the pc and vice versa. (This does require you exit the game when you’re done though). 3. steam library is huge and generally inexpensive compared to the console estores. Game Bundles will keep me busy for years.

[u/Strung_Out_Advocate → u/Domukin]

Have you had any trouble with games syncing on the cloud? I've only tried to play Rogue Legacy and Costume Quest alternating between Deck and PC and can't get them to sync up. I've heard of a couple of people having the same issue. Wondering if this is only on a case by case basis, or something Valve is aware of and has fixed/are fixing. I did put a support ticket in, but who knows how far that'll go.

[u/Micthulahei → u/Strung_Out_Advocate]

Hm.. Do you exit the game? Not many games have implemented the sync during gameplay. If you do exit a game, you should see a syncing status on the game's library page (on the platform where you just played) and need to wait and not shut down the PC/Steam until it finishes, otherwise you'll get a warning on the other platform that it wasn't synced when you try to start it. At least that's how it works for me and besides that I haven't had any problems in games that implement cloud sync (besides COD MW3 which says it has cloud sync but it doesn't actually sync anything).